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I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38680 on 19 January 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-38680 on 19 January 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Funding for all local authorities, including Glasgow City Council, is distributed using a needs-based distribution formula inherited from the previous administration and as agreed between the Scottish Government, COSLA and council leaders.

Local authority funding is distributed using a formula inherited from the previous administration and as agreed between the Scottish Government, COSLA and council leaders for the 2011-12 settlement on the basis of relative need. Therefore each local authority receives a funding allocation based on its need relative to that of all other local authorities and as a result the change in funding from 2010-11 will be different for each local authority. The average reduction in 2011-12 is 2.6%.

Local authority funding is distributed using a relative needs-based distribution formula inherited from the previous administration and as agreed between the Scottish Government, COSLA and council leaders.

The reduction in the package of revenue funding agreed with COSLA was a 2.6% average reduction. Once the total revenue funding was distributed between all 32 local authorities using the relative needs-based distribution formula, which was inherited from the previous administration and also agreed between the Scottish Government, COSLA and council leaders for the 2011-12 settlement, this resulted in a variation in year-on-year changes. Some local authorities received a reduction in revenue funding based on relative need which was less or greater than the 2.6% average. The local authorities that received a reduction greater than 2.6% are listed in the following table.

Local Authorities with a Reduction in Revenue Funding Greater than the 2.6% Average

Angus

Argyll and Bute

East Ayrshire

Edinburgh, City of

Eilean Siar

Fife

Glasgow City

Midlothian

Moray

Orkney

Renfrewshire

Scottish Borders

Shetland

Stirling

West Dunbartonshire

 

There has been no change to the Scottish Government''s policy commitment to ring-fence at least £3 million as part of the International Development policy. As I explained in evidence to the European and External Relations Committee on 7 and 14 December 2010, at least £3 million has already been allocated to Malawi in 2011-12.

As I set out in my evidence to the European and External Relations Committee on 7 and 14 December 2010, a minimum of £3 million has been allocated for our work in Malawi in 2011-12.

Households that have benefitted from the insulation measures delivered at stage 4 of the Energy Assistance Package are shown in the following table:

	Insulation Only	Insulation as well as Heating	Total Insulation
1 April 2009 to  31 March 2010	1,360	4,275	5,635
1 April 2010 to  30 September 2010	633	4,036	4,669

The following is the original answer (published on 14 December 2010); see below.

Households that have benefitted from the insulation measures delivered at stage 4 of the Energy Assistance Package are shown in the following table:

	Insulation Only	Insulation as well as Heating	Total Insulation
1 April 2009 to  31 March 2010	1,360	4,374	5,734
1 April 2010 to  30 September 2010	633	4,039	4,672

 

 

 

Households that have benefitted from the insulation measures delivered at stage 3 of the Energy Assistance Package are shown in the following table:

1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010	1 April 2010 to 30 September 2010	Total
2,576	995	3,571